I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!

Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting.

If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!

My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.

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